The Duty of the American People
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Excerpt from The Duty of the American People: As to the Philippines It has occurred to the writer to connect together a few facts that everybody knows by means of a few thoughts that every one entertains. He has not attempted a discussion of political economy or of international law. The ideas set down in the following pages are only those that seem to grow naturally out of the new conditions created by the record-breaking achievement of Admiral Dewey. The first Sunday of May, 1898, opened a new vista by which to forecast the events of the Twentieth Century. Since the adoption of its Constitution the government of our United States had agricultural land to give or to sell to all comers, until within the last few years. Since the government land offices were closed many new doctrines have been heard; Socialism, Anarchism, etc. It may be that in the wisdom of the Power that overrules the actions of men. Admiral Dewey has been the appointed means by which the solutions of these questions shall be deferred for another hundred years or until they can be answered by a generation that is wiser than we. If in such connection a few simple thoughts, inartistically put together, can at all aid to bring about a concrete conception of national duty, the writer will have done all that he can at utmost hope for. As these words are being written the second division of the army of occupation has been landed on the island of Luzon, Spain´s arsenal has been occupied; guns have been taken from her sunken ships by American sailors, and erected in fortifications built by American hands upon the captured territory; two of the island gun boats are sailing under American colors, and in that capacity have visited and exercised authority over the smaller seaports: practically nothing of conquest remains to be done except the proclamation of it. Here then is a question for the people of the United States: Shall these Philippines be retained; or, if not, what other disposition shall be made of them? If the United States remit the right of conquest the natural result follows that they revert to their original possessor. That is Spain! Before assenting to this conclusion, it must be remembered that war has been made upon the postulate that Spanish colonial government is insufferable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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